PROFINET Real-Time Dissector Denial of Service Vulnerability

PROFINET Real-Time Dissector Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2013-4936 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The IsDFP_Frame function in plugins/profinet/packet-pn-rt.c in the PROFINET Real-Time dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.1 does not validate MAC addresses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted packet.

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